With Mother’s Day, graduation parties, wedding season, and Father’s Day all bearing down on us, countless people are...
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Like Father, Like (and Unlike) Son
Nicolás Catena is widely acknowledged to be the father of contemporary Argentinean wine. He inspired first...
Toasting Mom
Forget the formulaic brunch, and for god’s sake don’t just blow Mom off with a silly card and/or hurried phone...
Jess Jackson RIP
News that Jess Jackson had died shortly before Easter at the age of 81 hardly came as a surprise. It was well known that...
Don’t Miss Latour’s 2009 Red Burgundies
I’ve loved the 2009 red Burgundies since the first time I tasted them from barrel in November of that year. With...
Pipeline Report: Bastien Tardieu on 2009 and 2010 Rhônes
With Bordeaux wines from the widely-heralded 2009 vintage now hitting our shores, it is natural enough that the gaze of North...
Remembering Jess Jackson
Jess Jackson, who lost his battle with cancer last week, sure could pick winners. In the last decade of his life, when he...
Remembering Jess Jackson
Parlez-Vous Walla Walla?
Considering its relatively small population (about 30,000), and considering how far it is from any major metropolitan...
Bierzo: Remote, Rugged, and Ready to Rip
In my 18 years of writing about wine, the best question ever put to me remains one sent by a Washington Post reader about...
Complexity or Concentration?
For centuries, complexity has been the principal sign or marker distinguishing special from basic wines, what the French...
Brave Now World
That bottle of wine you just opened may hail from the Napa Valley (or Rioja or Chianti Classico) but it’s...